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left after the gift; but the fiend of a slave-trader was in­exorable. She was dispatched to New Orleans; but, when about half-way there, God had mercy on her, and smote her with death. There were two girls named Edmundson in the same company. When about to be sent to the same market, an older sister went to the shambles, to plead with the wretch who owned them, for the love of God, to spare his victims. He bantered her, telling what fine dresses and fine furniture they would have. ' Yes,' she said, ' that may do very well in this life, but what will become of them in the next ? ' They too were sent to New Orleans ; but were afterwards redeemed, at an enormous ransom, and brought back." Is it not plain, from this, that the histories of Em-meline and Cassy may have many counterparts ?

Justice, too, obliges the author to state that the fairness of mind and generosity attributed to St. Clare are not with­out a parallel, as the following anecdote will show. A few years since, a young Southern gentleman was in Cin­cinnati, with a favorite servant, who had been his personal attendant from a boy. The young man took advantage of this opportunity to secure his own freedom, and fled to the protection of a Quaker, who was quite noted in affairs of this kind. The owner was exceedingly indignant. He had always treated the slave with such indulgence, and his confidence in his affection was such, that he believed he must have been practiced upon to induce him to revolt from him. He visited the Quaker, in high anger; but, being possessed of uncommon candor and fairness, was soon quieted by his arguments and representations. It was a side of the subject which he never had heard, — never had thought on ; and he immediately told the Quaker that, if his slave would, to his own face, say that it was his desire to be free, he would liberate him. An interview was forthwith procured, and Nathan was asked by his young master whether he had ever had any reason to com­plain of his treatment, in aty respect.